“Custom silicon challengers cannot close the gap against NVIDIA, with modeled outcomes showing 41% likelihood of outright loss and GB300 shipments growing 129% YoY in 2026, while China approved 200,000 H200 purchases from major players.”
“A greenfield custom-silicon entrant removes the merchant margin but not the memory premium (central outcome: 25% success/34% mediocre/41% loss, improvable via staged go/no-go gates)”
Prices are point-in-time snapshots from the named provider. The verdict compares the return since entry against the band above.